Swinging frame



J. RASKIN SWINGING FRAME i pct. 21, 1930.

Filed Apiil 3, "19:50

INVENTOR h Jacob Has/(In ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 2 1, 1930 PATENT OFFICE j JACOB BASKIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SWINGING FRAME Application filed April 3, 1930.

This invention relates to picture frames and easel supports therefor, particularly of the type used for exhibiting a picture from any level surface, as a shelf, desk or table.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a stand. having uprights between which the picture frame may be held as adjusted, in any angular positon desired.

A further feature is in the provision of a picture frame of unitary construction composed of mat and plate elements, readily removed from the frame by disconnecting the same at one corner.

Another aim is to produce a frame and stand of unusual simplicity, cheaply constructed, and presenting an attractive appearance.

These several advantageous objects are attained by the novel construction, combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a complete 1 embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the mats and plates, in the relation they assume when disposed within the frame.

Fig. 3, is a fragmentary, partial front elevational, partial sectional view of the device, parts being broken away to show the construction.

Fig. 4, is a partial front View, showing the normal inclination of one of the frame supports.

Fig. 5, is a similar fragmentary view showing the frame support from its inner side.

The device consists of a base 10 having divergent side and end walls, the lower edges of which are beaded inwardly to receive a closure plate 11, which may be of pasteboard or like inexpensive material.

Formed integrally with the side walls of the base is a level platform 12 pierced to present upstanding flanges 13 on two opposite sides, the same being soldered or otherwise secured to a pair of uprights 14, preferably of rectangular cross section, provided at their lower ends with inreaching Serial No. 441,217.

flanges 15, adapted to pass through the pierced opening and, like the flanges, be secured to the underside of the plate element 12.

These uprights are formed from single pieces of sheet metal, as is also the base, shaped to present a converging apex 16 at the top and having a meeting line 17 integrally along their inner surface.

A pair of alined openings 18 are formed in the inner side of the uprights, the same having extending outwardly through them a pair of opposed pivots 19, oppositely inturned from a wire 20 contained wholly within the upright to pass through the pierced openings in the base 12 and extend horizontally inward as at 21.

From Fig. 4, it will be noted that the'ups rights 14 are normally leaning inwardly un der the spring efiect of the element 20, in a manner which will be readily understood.

The frame, shown in Figs. 1 and 3, is composed of a single strip of thin metal, bent to produce a backing 25, sides 26, and a curved front 27 spaced from the back 25, a distance suflicient to receive a picture and mats here-. after described. 7

An opening 28 is formed in the side wall 26 near one of the corners, through ,which is extended a tongue 29 formed on the opposite endof the strip and by which the frame is held in operative position.

Disposed on the rear element is a backing plate 30,'its edges extending between the walls 26, this plate having an open slot 31 through which a picture may be passed, this picture, represented by the numeral 32, being of a lesser area than the plate 30, and adapted to be guided by insertion into a frame 33 of substantially the same thickness as the picture.

A mat 34, equal in size with the plate 30, is provided with notches 35 in its opposite sides, similar notches 35 being formed in the element 33, and into which the prong elements 19 of the spring wire enter the frame elements 26 through openings 36, best seen in Fig. 3, a glass plate 37 may be used if desiredon the outer surface of the mat 34, filling the interior of the frame.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a picture frame having a pair of opposed registering openings in its outer side walls, of a stand having a base, opposed hollow uprights fixed in said base, a spring wire extending through said base and uprights. and inreaching prongs passing through openings in said uprights to engage the openings in said frame.

2. The combination with a picture frame having a pair of opposed registering openings in its outer side walls, of a stand having a hollow base, a pair of spaced hollow uprights anchored in said base, said uprights each having a perforation in their adjacent members, a unitary spring extending through said base and into said uprights whereby the uprights are pressed against the sides of the frame, and prongs on the ends of said spring to pass through the upright perforations into the openings in the frame.

3. A picture frame stand comprising a base, a pair of uprights anchored therein, a unitary spring concealed in said base and uprights whereby the uprights are inclined inwardly to impinge on opposite side of the frame, and pivots on the ends of said spring to enter openings in the frame sides.

4.. A picture frame stand comprising a base, a pair of uprights anchored therein, said base and uprights being each composed of sheet material, a U shaped spring disposed in said base and uprights, and inreaching pivots 0n the ends of said spring to engage the side members of said frame.

Signed at New York, in the county and State of New York, this 17th day of F ebruary, 1930.

JACOB RASKIN. 

